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If you don't know what Linux is, and you would like to find out, a very good source of documentation is the WWW page http://www.linux.org/.
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If you are using a recent version of Debian, you may be able to follow the instructions for RedHat 4.0.0 with some modifications; dpkg supports installing RedHat packages now.
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...do.
This procedure is also an option if you are using RedHat 3.0.3.
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...computer.
SIPB offers a brief paper called Installing RedHat-Athena Linux on MITnet. You can pick it up where you got this.
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...knows.
If you change your root password you'll have to propagate your changes manually to /etc/passwd.local because /etc/passwd is reset on boot.
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...anyone.
Even if you are tortured.
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...encounter.
SIPB has an Inessential NetNews document, if you want more information on reading news.
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...discuss:
If you are unfamiliar with discuss, you can read ``Inessential Discuss,'' which should be available where you obtained this document.
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...scripts
CGI scripts may introduce security holes of their own. Be very careful with them.
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...knowledgeable.
Look at http://web.mit.edu/telnet/www/scenarios.html for more information.
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.../etc/passwd.
An encrypted password consists of fourteen random-looking characters between the first and second colons on a line in a passwd file.
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...points.
You can exclude specific files with GNU tar: tar cXf exclusionfile path dev will back up all of the files under path which are not listed in exclusionfile to the device (or file) dev.
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...network,
Network backups can be eavesdropped on unless you encrypt the connection with a program like ssh. Make them only if you have no other choice.
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Aaron M. Ucko
Sun Aug 3 09:48:16 EDT 1997